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UNITED STATES 'Y PATENT OFFICE.

VINCENT I. TRAVERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAMMOC'K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of 4Letters Patent No. 244,690, dated July19, 1881.

Application inea June 22,1881. (No model.)`

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT P. TRAVERS, of New York, in the county andState of New York, have invented an Improved Hammock, of which thefollowing is a specication.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved hammock. Fig. 2 is a topview of portion thereof; and Fig. 3, a cross-section of the same on theline c c, Fig. 2.

This invention relates to a new construction of a hammock, and has forits object to avoid the costly interweavin g of the cords that make upthe body of the hammock, and to substitute therefor a system oflongitudinal cords and cross-bands, so arranged that the cross-bandshave tubular openings to allow the longitudinal cords to be passedthrough them, in this manner obtaining the proper spacing of thelongitudinal cords and great durability of the entire fabric. Thelongitudinal cords of the hammock are at the ends madeto converge, andare there continued into the fasteningrope, if desired, or secured to asuitable ring, and by their converging they are brought into obliquepositions, whereby they will'prevent 'the cross-bandsfrom slipping outof the position assigned to them respectively.

In the accompanying drawings, the letters A A represent the longitudinalcords of the hammock, and the letters B B the cross-bands of the same.of usual construction. The cross-bands are made with tubular openingsthrough them, so that the cords A can be passed through them, asindicated in Figs. 2 and 3. The tubular passages through the cross-bandsare preferably at equal distances apart, as shown, and the cords arepassed through them with the aid of a suitable needle, or otherwise.There is nothing new iuoweaving the cross-bands `B with the tubularpassages, as such fabrics are ot' common construction. verge at the endsof-the hammock and are united at the knots a. Beyond these knots thecords maybe braided or twisted into ropes C, by means of whichthephammock can be Each longitudinal cord is a cord The cordsl A con! u'suspended from suitable supports; but instead of making the ropes O fromthe continuations of the cordsA-the cords may, where they join, beunited to a ring, to which suitable fastening-ropes may be secured. Thecords A converging prevent the cross-bands slipping on them, and thecross-bands always hold the cords at the desired distances apart.

In the body of the hammock it is not essen tial that the cords A shouldbe parallel to each other, as in Fig. 2, as the central bands, B, may bemade longer than the bands that are nearer to the ends of the hammock;but good results will also 'be produced by making the bands B all ofequal length.

l A hammock constructed on this system will be much more durable thanthe ordinary Mexican hammocks that are so much used, and far less liableto get out ot' order. If one of the cords A breaks the hammock canreadily'be repaired, whereas with the Mexican or inter.- woven hammock,it' one of the cords breaks the entire structure goes to pieces andcannot well be repaired; and even if one of the bands B in the improvedhammock should be broken,

torn, or worn through, it will be easily'replaced by another by simplyuntying the cords at the knot and slipping a new hand into position.

I claim- 1. A hammock constructed of longitudinal cords A, that convergeat the ends, and ofcrossbands B, having tubular passages through whichthe cords A are drawn, all arranged substantially as hereinshown anddescribed.

2. A hammock composed of longitudinal cords A and cross-bandsB, thelongitudinal cords converging at the knots a, and of theropes O O, whichare formed by twist-ing the ends of the cords A beyond the said knots,`substantially as specified.

This speci'cation of my invention signed by me this 21st day of June,1881.

Y VIN GENT P. TRAVERS. Witnesses WILLY G. E. SoHULrrz, WILLIAM H. C.SMITH.

